| 释义 |
-ule -ulesuff. Small one: valvule.
[French, from Latin -ulus, -ula, -ulum, diminutive suff.]-ule suffix forming nouns indicating smallness: globule. [from Latin -ulus, diminutive suffix]-ule a suffix occurring in loanwords from Latin, orig. diminutive nouns (capsule; globule; nodule) or noun derivatives of verbs (ligule). [< French < Latin -ulus, -ula, -ulum diminutive formative with nouns of the 1st and 2d declensions «*-el- (compare -cle1, -elle, -ole1)] |